Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many men play the role of parasite these days as do women. When I think of the number of loyal wives and mothers, who have never worked in their lives before, who have scurried bravely around and found some way to keep the home fires burning for their jobless men-folks the past few years, it burns me up to read that even one warped-minded man should have the effrontery to call our sex "basically parasitic...
...whip up some of the oldtime spirit that characterized the trimmer, grimmer A. E. F., President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow...
...means ready, however was Happy Days' public. President Roosevelt originally set C. C. C. at 250,000 young jobless. This was upped to 275,000 to include a special group of bonus-seeking veterans. Up to last week C. C. C. enlistments totalled 62,500, of whom 50,000 either had not yet been mustered into service or were still being "conditioned" in Army camps. After five weeks only 12,500 men or 5% of the original planned total had reached the woods. Director Fechner announced plans to have his army recruited to full strength by July...
President Roosevelt did not want the country to get the idea that this new Federal unemployment fund relieved communities and citizens from doing their loyal duty toward their local jobless. Said he: "The bill, in effect, is a challenge to governors, legislatures and local officials to stimulate their own efforts. . . . The first obligation is on the localities . . . then the State must do its utmost. . . . Only then can the Federal Government add its contribution...
Governor Henry Horner put the sales tax law through the General Assembly last winter as an emergency means of raising some $40,000,000 in revenue. Its proceeds were to be spent either on jobless relief or school expenses. *Only two kinds of retailers were exempt from the tax: farmers selling their own products and filling stations where gasoline is already taxed...